Monthly Archives: March 2012

Junior clinician educators found that a bimonthly peer mentoring group assisted with personal and professional growth. This looks promising (and inexpensive), but is based on the feedback of only seven faculty. — Laura Willett, MD Lord JA, Mourtzanos E, McLaren … Continue reading →

Researchers at the University of Minnesota offered a new voluntary course in April of the fourth year of medical school to students who had matched into surgically-related specialties. The course included sessions on technical skills as well as the general … Continue reading →

A recently developed peer assessment form was evaluated and found to have excellent inter-rater reliability, at least among a group of raters who had intensively discussed the use of the instrument with actual lecture ratings, to establish a common frame … Continue reading →